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

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

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

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.