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A book is the only immortality

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Its Constitution
the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.