Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.