A star for every State, and a State for every star..

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education..

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime..

Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in ….

The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to th….

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Ju….

In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burde….

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism..