You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.