I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?