Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
From Abraham Lincoln
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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