As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?