But For That Book, We Could Not

Public Opinion In This Country Is Everything.

The Working Men Are The Basis Of All Governments, For The Plain Reason That They Are The Most Numerous.

Both Parties Deprecated War; But One Of Them Would Make War Rather Than Let The Nation Survive; And The Other Would Accept War Rather Than Let It Perish. And The War Came.

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.

A Nation That Does Not Honor Its Heroes Will Not Long Endure.