Every head should be cultivated.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.