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.

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

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

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.

All men are born equally free.

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.

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