I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.