Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.