You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.