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.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.