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

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.