"The happiness of the individual is interwoven with that of his contemporaries: by the power of filial reverence and p…"

"I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. …"

"Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, th…"

"There is one principle which pervades all the institutions of this country, and which must always operate as an obsta…"

"The discussion of this Missouri question has betrayed the secret of their souls. In the abstract they admit that slav…"

"Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union,…"

"All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole gove…"

"The United States of America and the people of every State of which they are composed are each of them sovereign powe…"

"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the po…"

"This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; …"