The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.