I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.