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.

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

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.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

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