Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.