No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.