It will be all right if it turns out all right.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

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