Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.