Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.