A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.