Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.