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

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.