The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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.