"No one, John, no one sees that every new compromise compromises principles and honour.

Have you read any of the speeches of a man named Lincoln in Illinois?
He got a considerable vote in that nominating convention." "No, sir." "Then read it--read him.

A prophet of disaster! He says, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.

This government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free.' The man did not know that he was ignorantly quoting George Washington's opinion.

It is so, and so it will be.