We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.