This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.