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 can make more generals, but horses cost money.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.