The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle