The Puritan's Idea Of Hell

Eternal Vigilence Is The Price Of Liberty.

What Gunpowder Did For War, The Printing-press Has Done For The Mind; And The Statesman Is No Longer Clad In The Steel Of Special Education, But Every Reading Man Is His Judge.

To Hear Some Men Talk Of The Government, You Would Suppose That Congress Was The Law Of Gravitation, And Kept The Planets In Their Places.

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.

Statutes Are Mere Milestone, Telling How Far Yesterday's Thought Had Traveled; And The Talk Of The Sidewalk Today Is The Law Of The Land. With Us, Law In Nothing Unless Close Behind It Stands A Warm, Living Public Opinion.