The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Words are the voice of the heart.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.

The best way to change the future is to create it.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Without the assistance of that God, I cannot succeed.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen. And I will give them all the war they want.

Every man is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

You must remember that some things are better left undone than done badly.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

I do not like this punishment of withholding pay--it falls so very hard upon poor families.

I nominate Ulysses S. Grant, now a major-general in the military service, to be lieutenant-general in the Army of the United States.

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, relative to the reenlistment of veteran volunteers.