It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?