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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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.
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no, Sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and a ruined people.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.
Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)
I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826)
Standing armies are the oppressive instruments for governing the people, in the hands of hereditary and arbitrary monarchs.
On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843)
They went to war against a preamble, they fought seven years against a declaration.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!
If there be any thing in my style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures.
As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies?
On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843)
He studies to use his land so as not to abuse it.
On the Agriculture of England (1840)
Liberty and Union (United States), now and forever, one and inseparable.
Washington is in the clear upper sky.
Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826)
The bullets it fires are larger. They put bigger holes in things.
It must be confessed, it will be confessed; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.
Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)
I have entire confidence in the improvements to our husbandry, and the other great advantages, which would accrue from judicious rotation of products.
On the Agriculture of England (1840)
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)