We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.