Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.