I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.