No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality

Keep cool; anger is not an argument

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

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

What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare