I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.