We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.

Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.