If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

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'.