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.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

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

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.