In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.