John Creswell: “The sword may rust in its scabbard, and so let it; but free men, with free thought and free speech, will wage unceasing…”

When I think of the good he would have accomplished had he survived for twenty years, I can say, in the language of Fisher Ames, "My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I speak, and I could pour it out like…

Never again will he, answering to the roll-call from this desk, respond for his country and the rights of man.

She was the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and hope, in charity and thought, ready for every good work, herself the example of all she taught.

He lived to witness the triumph of his country in its desperate struggle with treason, and to behold all its enemies, either wanderers, like Cain, over the earth, or suppliants for mercy at her feet.