It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.