Never change horses in midstream.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

I think I stand where that man stands.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.