If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.