Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.