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

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?