The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.