The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just..

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of….

With malice towards none; with charity for all..

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere..

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end..

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time..

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm..

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black r….

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to….

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality..

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance.….

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to enterta….

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandin….

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come ….

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the….

To lead, you must touch men's hearts..

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money..

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not tu….

I think I stand where that man stands..

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now..