Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?