I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.