the better angels of our nature

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

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

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.