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 equal laws which it had framed.

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

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

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.