If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.