If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.