In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

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.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.