If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.