A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.