Rev. J.D. Liddell: The Kingdom of God is not a democracy. The Lord never seeks re- election. There's no discussion. No deliberatio...n. No referenda as to which road to take. There's one right, one wrong. One absolute ruler. Sandy: A dictator, you mean. Rev. J.D. Liddell: Aye, but a benign, loving dictator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like sp...ecter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all t...he members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and se...ttled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official st...ation than another.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 »
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determ...ination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bo...ne and sinew of the country--men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »