If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed