He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.