Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Labor is the true standard of value.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.