No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

I am without religious feeling.

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.