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

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.