I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.