All I have learned, I learned from books.

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

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