The Long Term Versus The Short Term

Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End. It Is Not For The Sake Of A Good Public Administration That It Is Required, But For The Security In The Pursuit Of The Highest Objects Of Civil Society, And Of Private Life.

We Are Not Sure We Are Right Until We Have Made The Best Case Possible For Those Who Are Wrong.

Before God, There Is Neither Greek Nor Barbarian, Neither Rich Nor Poor, And The Slave Is As Good As His Master, For By Birth All Men Are Free; They Are Citizens Of The Universal Commonwealth Which Embraces All The World, Brethren Of One Family, And Children Of God.

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.

Towns Were The Nursery Of Freedom.