I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.