I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.