If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

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

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.