SaturdayJul 25, 2026
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Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable
I still live.
Washington is in the clear upper sky.
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
Mr. Webster's reply to the invitation of his friends, who had been refused the use of Faneuil Hall by the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston. I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
The longer I live the more highly do I estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the more grateful do I feel to those who impress its importance on the community.
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
If we work upon marble, it will perish; If we work upon brass, time will efface it; If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust; But if we work upon mens immoral minds And imbue them with high principles, With the just fear of God and love of their fellow man; We engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, And which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of shears; they cut what comes between them, but not each other.
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams: 'On the day of his death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being reminded that it was 'Independent Day,' he replied, 'Independence forever.'
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,Independence now and Independence forever.
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations the relations between the creature and his Creator.
Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mindthat is one of the best sources of knowledge.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. 'What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.'
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
Thank God! I I also am an American!
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, But usually quarrel among themselves.
It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach.
Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
There is nothing so powerful as truth; And often nothing so strange.
Truth is always congruous and agrees with itself; every truth in the universe agrees with all others.
There is always room at the top.
Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.
Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
Religion is a necessary, an indispensable element in any great human character. There is no living without it. Religion is the tie that connects man to his Creator, and holds him to his throne.
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