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.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

Public opinion in this country is everything.