They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
Roger B. Taney (1777-1864): The Dred Scott Case (Howard, Rep. 19, p. 407).
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Henry Ellis (1777-1869): Original Letters. Second Series, p. 312.
March to the battle-field,
The foe is now before us;
Each heart is Freedom's shield,
And heaven is shining o'er us.
B. E. O'Meara (1778-1836): March to the Battle-Field.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.