I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.