Political Quotes

Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?

This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.

But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.

The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.