I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

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

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men