Thank God, I also am an American! 
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country. 
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. 
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe. 
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation. 
Power naturally and necessarily follows property. 
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. 
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. 
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. 
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it. 
One country, one constitution, one destiny. 
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. 
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. 
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. 
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. 
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. 
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. 
The States are nations. 
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. 
I do not propose to be buried until I am dead. 
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. 
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. 
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. 
Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge. 
The farmers are the founders of civilization. 
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. 
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession 
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. 
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. 
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. 
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. 
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death 
The man is free who is protected from injury. 
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange. 
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. 
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. 
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. 
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world. 
Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable! 
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. 
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. 
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. 