Thus Let Bygones Be Bygones. Let Past

Now, I Confess Myself As Belonging To That Class In The Country Who Contemplate Slavery As A Moral, Social And Political Evil, Having Due Regard For Its Actual Existence Amongst Us And The Difficulties Of Getting Rid Of It In Any Satisfactory Way, And To All The Constitutional Obligations Which Have Been Thrown About It; But, Nevertheless, Desire A Policy That Looks To The Prevention Of It As A Wrong, And Looks Hopefully To The Time When As A Wrong It May Come To An End.

If There Is Anything That A Man Can Do Well, I Say Let Him Do It. Give Him A Chance.

The Written Word May Be Man's Greatest Invention. It Allows Us To Converse With The Dead, The Absent, And The Unborn.

The Better Angels Of Our Nature

It Is The Man Who Does Not Want To Express An Opinion Whose Opinion I Want.