None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.