If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.