Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Suicide is not a remedy.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
