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

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

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

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

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

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.