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.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.