In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.