The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The p….

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men..

Right reason is stronger than force..

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology..

Ideas control the world..

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves..

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool..

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid..

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves..

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplor….

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, an….

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality..

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our pra….

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life..