I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.