The severest justice may not always be the best policy

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.