I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

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

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.