As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.