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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers; they arouse and animate our own people. - [Nation] An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. - [Rebellion] Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. - [Courtesy] Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. - in a speech at Lexington [Public Trust] I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances. - [Christianity] In all the affairs of human life, social as well as political, I have remarked that courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. - [Politeness] Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - [Character] Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other. - [Party] There is no power like that of oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of the other continues to this day. - [Oratory] I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. - In the U.S. Senate [Patriotism] The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." - Speech--On the New Army Bill [Peace] Sir, I would rather be right than be President. - Speech--Referring to the Compromise Measure [Right]
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