May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.