We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.