I am but a woman and not wise.

He who attempts to solve this slavery question must do what no statesman in all history has been able to do, what human wisdom here has failed to do for fifty years or more.

America has spent thirty years of statesmanship on this one question, and is just where it started.

This country, as Thomas Jefferson said so long ago, still has the wolf by the ear, but has not killed it and dare not let it go.

Out there--where I have been--in the West--there the new battle must be fought.