I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an Ameri… - Daniel Webster

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

In our day and generation let us seek to raise and improve the moral sentiment, so that we may look, not for a degraded, but for an elevated and improved future.... And then, when honored and decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one shall speak to the other of its objects, the purposes of its construction, and the great and glorious events with which it is connected, there shall rise from every youthful breast the ejaculation, "Thank God, I — I also — am an American!"

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession