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.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.