William Seward: “Now is the time to exterminate that monster, called party spirit.”

How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.

The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.

It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.

That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.