My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

The Almighty has His own purposes.