The courage of New England was the 'courage of conscience.' It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by e…