. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.