You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.