I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.