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.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.