I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.