It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.