Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.