I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

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.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.