I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.