I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

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

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

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.