Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.