This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.