There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were u….

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military ….

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army..

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only m….

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union..

And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do..

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the ….

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most h….

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that o….

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture..

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which….

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes..

Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all ….

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting ….

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home..

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck of power to rest....

We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investig….

Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptio….

The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians, aga….

This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shal….

Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a p….