Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.