Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

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 the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.