Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.