Free State Quotes

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.