Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

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.