The ballot is the only safety.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

One and God make a majority.

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.