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.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.