The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.