I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.