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.

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.