I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.