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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.