If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.