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

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.