Henry Ward Beecher: “He is in life for cultivation, not exhibition; he is here chiefly to be acted on, not to be characteristically an agent.”

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.