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

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.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

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

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 care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

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.