If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.