Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.