Politics Is But The Common

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.

Take The Whole Range Of Imaginative Literature, And We Are All Wholesale Borrowers. In Every Matter That Relates To Invention, To Use, Or Beauty Or Form, We Are Borrowers.

Experience Is A Safe Light To Walk By, And He Is Not A Rash Man Who Expects To Succeed In Future From The Same Means Which Have Secured It In Times Past.

Government Arrogates To Itself That It Alone Forms Men. Everybody Knows That Government Never Began Anything. It Is The Whole World That Thinks And Governs.

Christianity Is A Battle, Not A Dream.