What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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.

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

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.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.