We are not here today to bow before the representation of a fierce warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America and greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient song. Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror and of death, she holds aloft the light which illumines the way to man's enfranchisement. We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected. Willing votaries will constantly keep alive its fires and these shall gleam upon the shores of our sister Republic thence, and joined with answering rays a stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression, until Liberty enlightens the world.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the Government, but they should scrupulously avoid in th…

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its e…

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall pr…

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow room is pleasanter - and much safer.

There can be no country or dignity without unity of the people, and there can be no unity without agreement, and there can be no agreement without conciliation…