For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

No matter who’s looking at you, love, honesty, and kindness will always make you beautiful!

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.