"A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them."—Lincoln.
"No, you dare not make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king. Until lately, the Bank of England was king; but she tried to put her screws, as usual, the fall before the last, on the cotton crop, and was utterly vanquished . The last power has been conquered. Who can doubt, that has looked at recent events, that cotton is supreme?"—Everett.
"When … the pedigree of King Cotton is traced, he is found to be the lineal child of the tariff; called into being by a specific duty; reared by a tax laid upon the manufacturing industry of the North, to create the culture of the raw material in the South."—Id.
"Support the pillar of the Roman state,
Lest all men be involved in one man's fate."—Horace.
"Every epoch has two aspects,—one calm, broad, and solemn, looking towards eternity; the other agitated, petty, vehement, and confused, looking towards time."—Carlyle.
"It might have been added, that, while the Constitution, therefore, is admitted to be in force, its operation in every respect must be precisely the same, whether its authority be derived from that of the people in the one or the other of the modes in question, the authority being equally competent in both; and that, without an annulment of the Constitution itself, its supremacy must be submitted to."—Madison.
"Madness … invisible, impalpable, and yet no black Azrael, with wings spread over half a continent, with sword sweeping from sea to sea, could be a truer reality."—Carlyle.
"'The philosopher,' says the wisest of this age, 'must station himself in the middle.' How true! The philosopher is he to whom the Highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all."—Id.
"I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery of libels."—Mansfield.
"I speak as but one poor individual, but, when I speak, I speak the language of thousands."—Patrick Henry.
