We must forgive our enemies.

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.

Failure or success do not happen by accident, they are the compound interest of action or inaction.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.