He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.