Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

We have not yet begun to fight.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.