History teaches us hope.

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

The devil's name is dullness.

They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.