This nation under God

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.