You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey..

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation..

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian..

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young..

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance..

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends..

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future..

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'Wha….

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!.

I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and a….

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, h….

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts..

We must forgive our enemies..

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last..

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of er….

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed..

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and ….

You cannot barter manhood for peace..

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & sa….

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington..

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back..