The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

Achievement has no color