Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.