With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured..

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way..

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day..

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other..

Work, work, work, is the main thing..

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there….

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chord….

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot..

Shall we stop this bleeding?.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet..

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same..

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right..

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee..

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.….

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only a….

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up ….

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem)….

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own..

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth..

Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle ….