It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.