The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.