There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end do our duty as we understand it.