If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.