Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.