Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.