If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.