Duty, Then Is The Sublimest Word In

I Will Attack No Matter What And Win The War!

I Pray That On This Day [christmas] When Only Peace And Good-will Are Preached To Mankind, Better Thoughts May Fill The Hearts Of Our Enemies And Turn Them To Peace.

We Made A Great Mistake In The Beginning Of Our Struggle, And I Fear, In Spite Of All We Can Do, It Will Prove To Be A Fatal Mistake. We Appointed All Our Worst Generals To Command Our Armies, And All Our Best Generals To Edit The Newspapers

While We See The Course Of The Final Abolition Of Human Slavery Is Onward, & We Give It The Aid Of Our Prayers & All Justifiable Means In Our Power, We Must Leave The Progress As Well As The Result In His Hands Who Sees The End; Who Chooses To Work By Slow Influences; & With Whom Two Thousand Years Are But As A Single Day.

Ideas Are Easy To Conceive, Less Easy To Execute.