The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.