I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.