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

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.