It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.