To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.