I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me – and I think He has – I believe I am ready.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
History is not history unless it is the truth.
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.