What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.