So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

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

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.