It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of 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.

I have missed you. And I did not know anything was missing.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.

Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.