I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

The States are nations.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.