The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the peop...le of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do seriously believe that if we can measure among the States the benefits resulting from the preservation of the Union, the rebe...llious States have the larger share. It destroyed an institution that was their destruction. It opened the way for a commercial life that, if they will only embrace it and face the light, means to them a development that shall rival the best attainments of the greatest of our States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of ...men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility--the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of our factories with which we have ...lined all the watercourses in the States. A man hardly knows how much he is a machine, until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press, and locomotive, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Government's] true strength consists in leaving individuals and states as much as possible to themselves--in making itself felt, ...not in its power, but in its beneficence, not in its control, but in its protection, not in binding the states more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially ...concentrated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be great, carve deep your heel-marks. The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge... their love of freedom with contempt of luxury.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of ... powers not granted by the compact, the States ... are in duty... bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Urging the national government] to eradicate local prejudices and mistaken rivalships to consolidate the affairs of the states in...to one harmonious interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain s...ense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »