Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].