"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me."
"Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense."
"I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."
"You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it."
"If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already."
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave."
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"
"To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."
"The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it."
"Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."
"I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization."
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares."
"You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm."
"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
"I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country."
"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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