We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.