The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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 practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God’s decree and can never be reversed.
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
I want in all cases to do right.
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
Our political problem now is “Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever – half slave, and half free?” The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.