In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.