Half Finished Work Generally Proves

I Must Keep Some Standard Of Principle Fixed Within Myself.

Government Of The People, By The People, For The People, Shall Not Perish From The Earth.

If Elected I Shall Be Thankful; If Not, It Will Be All The Same.

Human Nature Will Not Change. In Any Future Great National Trial, Compared With The Men Of This, We Shall Have As Weak And As Strong, As Silly And As Wise, As Bad And As Good. Let Us Therefore Study The Incidents In This As Philosophy To Learn Wisdom From And None Of Them As Wrongs To Be Avenged.

I Wish All Men To Be Free. I Wish The Material Prosperity Of The Already Free Which I Feel Sure The Extinction Of Slavery Would Bring.