The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.