Anxiety beclouds the future.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

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

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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.