Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding t….

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of neces….

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God..

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best ….

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide….

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression..

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths..

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed..

I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question ….

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people"..

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all..

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined..

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with….

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy the….

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men..

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, ….

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not..

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are..

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government..

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the n….