The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

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

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite