Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.