My Chief Concern Is To Try To

There Is Scarcely Anything That Is Right That We Cannot Hope To Accomplish By Labor And Perseverance. But The First Must Be Earnest And The Second Unremitting.

A Union That Can Only Be Maintained By Swords And Bayonets, And In Which Strife And Civil War Are To Take The Place Of Brotherly Love And Kindness, Has No Charm For Me.

I Cannot Trust A Man To Control Others Who Cannot Control Himself.

It Is History That Teaches Us To Hope.

A True Man Of Honor Feels Humbled Himself When He Cannot Help Humbling Others.