The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

Violence multiplies violence.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.