"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."