But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

If you have the will to accumulate knowledge it has to be used in the way it was intended to be used for .Not greed,selfishness or any evil for that matter no it should be for the greater good .Only then can you know in you conscience that the road to true enlightenment is yours.Gary F Evans...

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.