I am always for the man who wishes to work.

In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.