If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Desperate times breed desperate measures.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

What's done cannot be undone.