I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.