Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.