If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

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