Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.