Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.