There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.