It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.