It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.