Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.