Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.