An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, ….

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something..

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....

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..

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….

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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 ….