I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.