The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.