This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.