There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

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

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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 what light I have.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.