With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.