The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.