I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

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.

We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

The safety of the State is the highest law.

Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.

If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.