Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.