"We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this."

"There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

"I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve."

"If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied."

"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, cannot long retain it."

"If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned."

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

"The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded."

"It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence."

"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible."

"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."

"I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up."

"The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application."

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

"Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."

"If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it."

"I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance."

"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say."

"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."

"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."