The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

History is nothing if not far-fetched.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

People don't want truth, they just want trash.

If you want understanding try giving some.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.