There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.