Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.