That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.