People are just as happy as they choose to be.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

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

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.