Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon..

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might..

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome..

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public..

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be..

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything..

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated..

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labo….

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office..

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag..

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it..

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right ma….

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it..

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, ….

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world..

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime tr….

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion..

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it..

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from ci….