Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.