This nation under God

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.