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.

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 have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ... that of being truly esteemed of my fellow‑men.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.