No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution