You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.