Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

the better angels of our nature

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.