We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

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