...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

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

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...