These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

We cannot escape history.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.