“He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.”

“Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.”

“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”

“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”

“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

“The way we do things is to begin.”