if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.