Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.