Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.