The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.