The Enemy Is Here, And If We

You Have Only Always To Do What Is Right. It Will Become Easier By Practice, And You Enjoy In The Midst Of Your Trials The Pleasure Of An Approving Conscience.

My Experiences Of Men Has Neither Disposed Me To Think Worse Of Them Nor Be Indisposed To Serve Them: Nor, In Spite Of Failures Which I Lament, Of Errors Which I Now See And Acknowledge, Or The Present Aspect Of Affairs, Do I Despair Of The Future. The Truth Is This: The March Of Providence Is So Slow And Our Desires So Impatient; The Work Of Progress So Immense And Our Means Of Aiding It So Feeble; The Life Of Humanity Is So Long, That Of The Individual So Brief, That We Often See Only The Ebb Of The Advancing Wave And Are Thus Discouraged. It Is History That Teaches Us To Hope.

Never Do A Wrong Thing To Make A Friend Or To Keep One.

The War... Was An Unnecessary Condition Of Affairs, And Might Have Been Avoided If Forebearance And Wisdom Had Been Practiced On Both Sides.

I Can Anticipate No Greater Calamity For The Country Than The Dissolution Of The Union. It Would Be An Accumulation Of All The Evils We Complain Of, And I Am Willing To Sacrifice Everything But Honor For Its Preservation.