You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.