A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

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

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

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The way to resumption is to resume.

All men are born equally free.