On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,—a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun,[533:1] and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.[533:2]

Speech, May 7, 1834. P. 110.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846. Vol. v. p. 187.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.[533:3]

Speech, July 17, 1850. P. 437.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830. Vol. vi. p. 54.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth,—and often nothing so strange.