Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.