That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.