On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.