I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.