When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.