We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.