I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.