Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.