If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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