"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar."

"A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homoge…"

"Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that crad…"

"Unfortunately, the opinion has gone forth that no politician dares to be the advocate of peace when the question of w…"

"Do they find in the history of St. Domingo, and in the present condition of Jamaica, under the recent experiments whi…"

"Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. Th…"

"What security have you for your own safety if every man of vile temper, of low instincts, of base purpose, can find i…"

"Why, then, in the absence of all control over the subject of African slavery, are you agitated in relation to it? Wit…"

"We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the Creator, and from the cradle to the gra…"

"One of the fruitful sources, as I hold it, of the errors which prevail in our country, is the theory that this is a g…"