Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.