While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear Mr. District Attorney, your law is shockingly bad. I have the perfect alibi. I am legally dead. Your business is with the ...living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!... Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society... is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored..., the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I ...have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character. There's not...hing else one can say about me--I'm superfluous, in a word. A supernumerary--that's all. Nature evidently didn't count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow bor...n out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed monstrous to our intolerant youth that "poor white folksy" men should have an equal right with gentlemen, born and bred,... in deciding who should represent the county in the Legislature and the district in Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »