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

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.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

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

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

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

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.