Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.