Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.