We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

This nation under God

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.