I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.