Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander