I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.