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.

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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