All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.