Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.