If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.