The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

All men are born equally free.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

The way to resumption is to resume.