It is a proposal for steady upbuilding of agriculture onto firm foundations of equality with other industry and would remove the agricultural problem from politics and place it in the realm of business.

If all men are created equal, that is final.

We have not opened all the avenues to livelihood which they are quite as well able to fill, and in certain respects better able to fill, than we are.

I do not think there should be a discrimination in favor of this applicant and against many thousands of widows fully as well entitled.

I find no reason why this beneficiary should be singled out from his class.

The New York custom-house should be placed on the same footing with the New York post-office.

The just equality of all the States has thus been vindicated and a fruitful source of dangerous dissension among them has been removed.

Any benefit or privilege conferred by law or treaty on one must be common to all, and we are not at liberty, on a question of such vital interest and plain constitutional duty, to consider whether the particular case is one in which substantial inconvenience or injustice might ensue.

She has agreed in the treaty with England that correspondence between the agents of the two Governments shall be on equal terms--a concession which it is hardly probable will hereafter be withheld from other nations.

Peace with all the world is the true foundation of our policy, which can only be rendered permanent by the practice of equal and impartial justice to all.

Good government is built on the principles of justice and equality.