One On God's Side Is A Majority.

Insurrection Of Thought Always Precedes The Insurrection Of Arms.

How Prudently Most Men Creep Into Nameless Graves, While Now And Then One Or Two Forget Themselves Into Immortality.

Revolutions Are Not Made, They Come.

There Is A Very Broad Theory That Society Gets The Right To Hang, As The Individual Gets The Right To Defend Himself. Suppose She Does; There Are Certain Principles Which Limit This Right. Society Has Got The Murderer Within Four Walls; He Never Can Do Any More Harm. Has Society Any Need To Take That Man's Life To Protect Itself? If Any Society Has Only The Right That The Individual Has, She Has No Right To Inflict The Penalty Of Death, Because She Can Effectually Restrain The Individual From Ever Again Committing His Offence.

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.