Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.