The way to resumption is to resume.

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

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

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.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

All men are born equally free.

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