The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.