You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.