The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States..

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose dutie….

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his C….

States Rights died at Appomattox..

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts th….

The way to resumption is to resume..

No more slave States and no more slave territory..

All men are born equally free..

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every in….

There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would tr….

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects ….

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our nation….

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve..

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I a….

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. ….

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it..

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love..

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty..

No more slave States; no slave Territories..