Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.