Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.