I Laugh Because I Must Not Cry,

I Will Prepare And Some Day My Chance Will Come.

I Affect No Contempt For The High Eminence He [senator Stephen Douglas] Has Reached. So Reached, That The Oppressed Of My Species,might Have Shared With Me In The Elevation, I Would Rather Stand On That Eminence, Than Wear The Richest Crown That Ever Pressed A Monarch's Brow.

Half Finished Work Generally Proves To Be Labor Lost.

To Stand In Silence When They Should Be Protesting Makes Cowards Of Men.

I Destroy My Enemy If I Make Him My Friend.