I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.