A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.