It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.