I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.