It is the mark, or it should be the mark, of a strong, self-respecting nation never wantonly to injure the feelings or t...
Yes, and have the 'big stick', too, but do not brandish it.
But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness of his great and sad heart, for all his country men alike in the...
He warred for the Union; he warred to free the slave; and when he warred he warred in earnest, for it is a sign of weakn...
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for h...
To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some ...
We of to-day, in dealing with all our fellow-citizens, white or colored, North or South, should strive to show just the ...
Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in ...
So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.
May not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to serve our common country?
May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?
Surely this is the spirit which all Americans should show now, when there is so little excuse for malice or rancor or ha...
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as ...
For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way.
It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner.
It is not a matter of credit to be honest, any more than it is a matter of credit to a soldier to be brave.
The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.
This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fie...
