We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.