When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...