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

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.