Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.