We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

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.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.