The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of c….

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come..

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the ….

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned..

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel..

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I wi….

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible..

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing..

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble..

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there ca….

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies..

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual..

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a forei….

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind..

It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It….

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, exce….

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal..

I am without religious feeling..

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights..

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress..