You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.