“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

Be a great speaker, become a leader.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Virtue is not always amiable.

No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.

We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.

Go on and improve in everything worthy.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

What is right is more important than who is right.

Your power is your voice.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Do I want to be right or I want to be happy.