I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.