The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.
It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.