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.

I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

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.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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.