I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.