Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.