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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.