That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.