But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.