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.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?