I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.