The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone