I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.