Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.