There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.