Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.