Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

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.

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

All things are photographable.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.