Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.