There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser...pent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than u...pon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I now have next to no hope of a restoration of the old Union.... If it is the settled and final judgment of any slave State that s...he cannot live in the Union, I should not think it wise or desirable to retain her by force, even if it could be done. But am I, therefore, to oppose the war? If it were a war of conquest merely, certainly I should oppose it.... But the war is forced on us. We cannot escape it. While ... perhaps in all the cotton-growing States, a deciding and controlling public judgment has deliberately declared against remaining in the Union, it is quite certain that in several States rebellious citizens are bent on forcing out of the Union States whose people are not in favor of secession.... If force had been employed to meet force, I believe several States now out of the Union would have remained in it.... The war ... for the defence of the capital, for the maintenance of the authority of the Government and the rights of the United States, I think is necessary, wise, and just.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourte...enth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a vast traffic is drove, what a variety of labour is performed in the world to the maintenance of thousands of families that ...altogether depend on two silly if not odious customs; the taking of snuff and smoking of tobacco; both of which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suf...fice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religio...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »