The measure of a man's real character is what he will do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

Motley called. I like him much. We agree wonderfully well about slavery, and it is not often that I meet any person with whom I agree on that subject. For I hate slavery from the bottom of my soul; and yet I am made sick by the cant and the silly mock reasons of the Abolitionists. The nigger driver and the negrophile are two odious things to me. I must make Lady Macbeth's reservation: “Had he not resembled—”.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods