“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

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

“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.”

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

“The way we do things is to begin.”