People are just as happy as they choose to be.

Achievement has no color

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men