I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.