The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes – no other marks or brands recollected.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, “I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.”
Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.
So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
Bring me Longstreet’s head on a platter and the war will be over.
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.
Four score and seven days is too long between massages.
One’s only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.