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

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.

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.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.

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