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

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember