The nourishment is palatable.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.