Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
Honor is better than honors.
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.