His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.