There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.