William Seward: “If we have rules we had better either obey them or burn them.”

Human nature, with all its infirmities and depravation, is still capable of great things.

Without strength, and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellencies will be eclipsed and obscured.

No man was a more ardent lover of liberty, or was more anxious that its institutions should be established throughout the earth, at the earliest practicable moment.

But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.