Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.