Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.