His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.