"While we read history we make history ... Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is …"

"With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations…"

"There are certain great sentiments which simultaneously possess many minds and make what we call the spirit of the ag…"

"The principle of our Revolution, as defined by its leaders with sublime simplicity, was, that as Liberty is a natural…"

"Mr. Douglas incessantly remembers to inform us in every speech he has made for a year past that, when the Constitutio…"

"That is to say, within less than twenty years after the Constitution was formed, and in obedience to that general opi…"

"I will not weary you with the proof of this. James Madison, who knew perhaps as well as any one what the makers of th…"

"Our fathers, therefore, were fully alive to the scope of their words and their work; and thus, as I believe, the Cons…"

"In like manner the Reverend Dr. William A. Smith, President of the Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, in his work up…"

"I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said on…"