I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.