Men Cannot Be Made Good By The

It Is Bad To Be Oppressed By A Minority, But It Is Worse To Be Oppressed By A Majority.

Far From Being The Product Of A Democratic Revolution And Of An Opposition To English Institutions, The Constitution Of The United States Was The Result Of A Powerful Reaction Against Democracy, And In Favor Of The Traditions Of The Mother Country.

Remember That One Touch Of Ill-nature Makes The Whole World Kin.

History Is The Arbiter Of Controversy, The Monarch Of All She Surveys.

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.