In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. - We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings.

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? - Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step t…

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

And the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we…

The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country.