Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.