What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.