Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.