Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

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

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.