Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.