If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.