"The true touchstone of civil liberty is not that all men are equal but that every man has the right to be the equal o…"

"I was always a friend of Southern rights, but an enemy of Southern wrongs."

"I have forborne, sir, in this discussion, to argue the question upon any other or different grounds of right than tho…"

"Will you suffer your soldier, captured in fighting your battles, to be in confinement for months rather than release …"

"That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Uly…"

"The great crisis facing the country was the rebellion and anybody in the North who wanted to preserve the Union now f…"

"Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."

"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."

"The climate is changing, but the question is, is it being caused by natural cycles over the span of the Earth’s histo…"

"Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and, the studies clearly show, are ultimately harmful and costly fo…"