Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.