Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."