The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.