The First And Almost The Only Book

Our Constitution Professedly Rests Upon The Good Sense And Attachment Of The People. This Basis, Weak As It May Appear, Has Not Yet Been Found To Fail.

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

The Great Problem Of Legislation Is, So To Organize The Civil Government Of A Community... That In The Operation Of Human Institutions Upon Social Action, Self-love And Social May Be Made The Same.

I Want A Warm And Faithful Friend, To Cheer The Adverse Hour; Who Ne'er To Flatter Will Descend, Nor Bend The Knee To Power,- A Friend To Chide Me When I'm Wrong, My Inmost Soul To See; And That My Friendship Prove As Strong For Him As His For Me.

Our Constitution Rests On The Good Sense And The Respect Of The American People.