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

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…

Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

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