When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

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

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.