But it is still more true of the Scandinavians, a hardy and adventurous race, faithful and brave, who become full of the spirit of American nationality.

The question upon which the policy of all National election laws depends is, At whose will do you hold your right to be an American citizen?

His conversation, to which it was always a delight to listen, had no gossip in it.

It is one of the most wonderful things in our history, that the separate States having so much in common, have preserved so completely, even to the present time, their original and individual characteristics.

This shows how perfectly state rights and state freedom are preserved in spite of our National union, how little the power at the centre interferes with the important things that affect the character of a people.

Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its roots, and in that freedom bold.

And so the grandeur of the forest tree Comes, not from casting in a formal mould, But from its own divine vitality.

Gibbon wrote of decline, of decay, of dissolution, and death; of the days, to use his own words, 'when giants were becoming pigmies.' Bancroft tells the story of birth, and growth, and youth, and life.

Certainly there is nothing like England, and there never has been anything like England in the world.

I shall never forget the delight of that day.

But his restoration was an act of purest kindness.

All I have to say in reply to it is that I have done my best to get at the truth, without, so far as I am concerned, any desire except to get at and utter the truth.

Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.

They forgot the eight hundred years during which Ireland had been under the heel of England, and the terrible history so well told by that most English of Englishmen, and Protestant of Protestants, Lord Macaulay.

From their scanty earnings, Edward Everett, a high authority, estimates that there were sent twenty millions of dollars in four years to their parents and kindred.

I never said, thought or dreamed what you impute to me.

It must rest upon the free consent of the governed and all of the governed.

The only way to stop it that I knew was to refuse to vote for the Army Bill.

Eloquence is the feather that tips his arrow.

Bolingbroke's speeches, though so enthusiastically praised by the best judges, have perished by their own worthlessness.

The great thoughts of Webster justify, in the estimation of the reader, the fame he enjoyed with his own generation.

The great orator must be a man of absolute sincerity.

It is not his duty or his right to express or convey his individual opinion.

As I have said, his object is to excite the emotions which, being excited, will be most likely to impel his audience to think or act as he desires.

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.