The Heritage Of The Past

Freedom To Preach Was First Gained, Dragging In Its Train Freedom To Print.

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.

Let Me Make The Newspapers, And I Care Not What Is Preached In The Pulpit Or What Is Enacted In Congress

Every Step Of Progress The World Has Made Has Been From Scaffold To Scaffold, And From Stake To Stake.

You Can Always Get The Truth From An American Statesman After He Has Turned Seventy, Or Given Up All Hope Of The Presidency.