These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.