Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.