“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

We cannot escape history.