Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
God must like common people, or he would not have made so many of them.
The reasonable man has long since agreed that intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail accurately to predict them in advance.
No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty.
Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the Union and the liberties of their country, truly may it be said: 'The gates of hell cannot prevail against them.'
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent.
Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently to build one for himself.