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

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.