I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.