I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.