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.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.