I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

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

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.