Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration