"It is much to be feared that the same motives which have hitherto retarded the abolition of slavery, will continue to operate."

"The very idea of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, is founded on the great principle of majority rule."

"The unfortunate condition of the persons whose labour in part I employed has been the only unavoidable subject of regret."

"I am unwilling to be the only man in whom the love of my Country is not the ruling principle."

"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."