Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.