Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but … - Daniel Webster

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

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven.