It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.