Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God.

to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action.

it is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation.

to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His mercy.

Public safety requires strict enforcement of this article.

It was my intention, as shown by my letter of June 20, 1861, to appoint Hon. James H. Lane, of Kansas, a brigadier-general of United States Volunteers, in anticipation of the act of Congress since passed for raising such volunteers;

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to…

To destroy the spirit of the Union, is to destroy the Union itself.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

This is essentially a People's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men--to lift artificial weights from…

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.