The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.