I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.