Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.