Protect every citizen, including the millions of people of foreign birth who will flock to our shores to become citizens and to find here a land of liberty and law.

Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (April 7, 1866). Civil Rights: Speech of Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, April 7, 1866 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Globe Office, 1866) p. 1