Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.