Independence now: and Independence forever.

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Wisdom begins at the end.

If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?