The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.