Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.