We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.