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Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.— filed under Affliction
Praise. Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.— filed under Christian
America. (Edinburgh Review, 1820.) America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.— filed under Countries-America
Rule Britannia. A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.— filed under Countries-England
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. น. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.— filed under Credit
Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.— filed under Flags
The people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.— filed under Government
Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!— filed under Government
I thank God that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit, which would drag angels down.— filed under Influence
on the Progress and Prospects of Society. Vol. II. P. 361. Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered.— filed under Intellect
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.— filed under Kisses
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.— filed under Labor
the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.— filed under Labor
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.— filed under Language
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.— filed under Liberty
1834. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.— filed under Liberty
Charleston Bar Dinner. May 10, 1847. On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn, Risen on mid-noon; " and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.— filed under Liberty
in a Garden. Preliminary. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it.— filed under Occupations-Law
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!— filed under Patriotism
July 17, 1850. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.— filed under Patriotism
Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1825. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.— filed under Patriotism
and Jefferson. Thank God, I-I also-am an American! S.— filed under Patriotism
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.— filed under Iii
Foot's Resolution. Jan. 26, 1830. March One Country, one Constitution, one Destiny. 15, 1837— filed under Iii
Imagination. II. Avon. The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be.— filed under Rivers-Afton
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.— filed under Scripture
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.— filed under Suicide
April 23, 1761. There is nothing so powerful as truth; and often nothing so strange.— filed under Truth