You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

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

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.