It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.