He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

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.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.