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

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

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

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