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.

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 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.

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

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.