May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction…

Besides acting squarely, talk politely.

It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner.

Surely this is the spirit which all Americans should show now, when there is so little excuse for malice or rancor or hatred, when there is so little of vital consequence to divide brother from brother.

It is a discredit to be dishonest, just as it is a discredit to be a coward.

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 North and in the South, and he longed above every thing for the day when they should once more be knit together in the…

To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some harm.

We of to-day, in dealing with all our fellow-citizens, white or colored, North or South, should strive to show just the qualities that Lincoln showed; his steadfastness in striving after the right, and his infinite patience and forbearance…

This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wrath, with rancor, with all the evil and dreadful passions provoked by civil war.

In addition to the foregoing recommendation I urge that Congress emphasize the value set by our people upon the achievements of the naval commanders in our war of independence by providing for the erection of appropriate monuments to the…

So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.

Yes, and have the 'big stick', too, but do not brandish it.

Human nature will not change.

It is the mark, or it should be the mark, of a strong, self-respecting nation never wantonly to injure the feelings or to infringe upon the rights of any other people.

Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.

The great interest which our people feel in the story of Paul Jones's life, the national sense of gratitude for the great service done by him toward the achievement of independence, and the sentiment of mingled distress and regret felt…

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 weakness to be half-hearted when blows must be struck.

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.

Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in dealing with his fellow, on the principle of trying to act squarely by every other nation, and of exacting square…

For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way.

The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.

Lincoln, himself a man of Southern birth, did not hesitate to appeal to the sword when he became satisfied that in no other way could the Union be saved, for high though he put peace he put righteousness still higher.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

May not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to serve our common country?