But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.