Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.