Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.