I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.