When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are…

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!

A strong impression that something must be done, is the origin of many bad measures.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

“What is an oath?” ... [I]t is founded on a degree of consciousness that there is a Power above us that will reward our virtues or punish our vices. ... [O]ur system of oaths in all our courts, by which we hold liberty and property and all …