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

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.