The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Lincoln on Grant: 'He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.