Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.