We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

I want in all cases to do right.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.