Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.