Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.