Towering Genius Distains A Beaten Path.

I Am An Optimist Because I Don't See The Point In Being Anything Else.

The Better Angels Of Our Nature

We Want, And Must Have, A National Policy, As To Slavery, Which Deals With It As Being Wrong.

If Ever This Free People, If This Government Itself Is Ever Utterly Demoralized, It Will Come From This Incessant Human Wriggle And Struggle For Office, Which Is But A Way To Live Without Work.

It Is My Pleasure That My Children Are Free And Happy, And Unrestrained By Parental Tyranny. Love Is The Chain Whereby To Bind A Child To Its Parents.