Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by his example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one.

Here's an object more of dread Than aught the grave contains- A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains.