No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Every head should be cultivated.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.