The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Nothing from man's hands, no law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.