| Quote | Person Speaking |
| 'Disunion by force is treason.' | |
| 'Liberty in union, now and forever, one and inseperable.' | |
| 'I would rather be right than President. ' | |
| “The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens” | |
| 'Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man; why then should it not bestow added charm on women?' | |
| 'Always in pursuit of shadows! We lose to-day's substantial good for shadowy phantoms that keep our eyes ever in advance, and our feet ever hurrying forward.' | |
| 'Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.' | |
| 'Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.' | |
| 'Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it. ' | |
| 'A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.' | |