If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.