If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.