We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

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

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Friendship is the start for what you call love.