In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?