I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible.