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.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .