While modes of fighting were different in the time of Lincoln from that of Washington, and still more different today, t...
The only way by which, in the long run, any man can be helped is by teaching him to help himself.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether, in the long run, it works more damage than softness...
The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.
In the army you developed two or three or half a dozen great geniuses.
Our honor at home, our honor in domestic and internal affairs, is at all times in our own keeping, and depends simply up...
That is how the victory comes.
Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the ...
It is always pleasant to point to an example which we can follow rather than avoid.
Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.
We have got to do it somehow, and I ask that all men stand shoulder to shoulder as Americans to see that they do it well...
One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrym...
If government cannot go on it is not government.
He has got in the first place to be honest and decent.
I thank you for listening.
I do not care how beautiful a theory is, if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good.
We need other things, too; we have got to have a proper ideal of our lives; each man must do his duty by his neighbor.
Never in their history has each man had, as he has now, such a good chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happines...
