I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

the better angels of our nature

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.