Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her