Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.