It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

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.