Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.