"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I …"

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to m…"