Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

My policy is to have no policy.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.