Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.