The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience." It did…

All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, — all change, — all permanence, — the …

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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 equal laws which it had framed.

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

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