Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry