“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

“Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. --February 22, 1861”

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”