The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
By what principle of original right is it that one fiftieth or one ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations great or small to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.