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

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 wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

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.