Too big to cry too young to laugh.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.