I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.