[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property..

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or ….

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by fo….

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I….

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read..

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least p….

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, ….

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name ….

Teach hope to all, despair to none..

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commu….

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition..

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense….

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me..

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you..

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil..

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as….

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, b….

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practi….

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power..

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was ….