Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

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.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Too many piglets not enough tits.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.