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

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.