We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.