If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.