A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.