Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.