The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.