The Slowest Of Us Cannot

Every Government Is Always Growing Corrupt.

What Is Fanaticism Today Is The Fashionable Creed Tomorrow, And Trite As The Multiplication Table A Week After.

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.

The Man Who, For Party, Forsakes Righteousness, Goes Down; And The Armed Battalions Of God March Over Him.

Revolution Is The Only Thing, The Only Power, That Ever Worked Out Freedom For Any People. The Powers That Have Ruled Long And Learned To Love Ruling, Will Never Give Up That Prerogative Until They Must, Till They See The Certainty Of Overthrow And Destruction If They Do Not. To Plant-to Revolutionize-these Are The Twin Stars That Have Ruled Our Pathway. What Have We Then To Dread In The Word Revolution-we, The Children Of Rebels!