May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?
To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some ...
In addition to the foregoing recommendation I urge that Congress emphasize the value set by our people upon the achievem...
Human nature will not change.
For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way.
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as ...
It is the mark, or it should be the mark, of a strong, self-respecting nation never wantonly to injure the feelings or t...
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...
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.
May not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to serve our common country?
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...
Yes, and have the 'big stick', too, but do not brandish it.
Besides acting squarely, talk politely.
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...
No such organized surveys have ever yet been attempted anywhere; but the idea is in harmony with modern, scientific, and...
The islands of that group present as many interesting and novel questions with respect to their ethnology, their fauna a...
Circumstances have placed under the control of this Government the Philippine Archipelago.
