I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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.

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.