I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.