I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

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.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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.