I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.