I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.