We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.