It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.