Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.