When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Ideas control the world.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.