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 ….

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards..

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife..

The will of God prevails..

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything..

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls t….

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the s….

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation..

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it..

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth..

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe..

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair..

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness..

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing..

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No fores….

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, kno….

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake..

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As….

A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do t….

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. I….