If you love something, set it free.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

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

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.