Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.