Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.