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

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

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

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

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.