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.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.