Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.