If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.