Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.