The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.