Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.