The great prizes come more or less by accident.
Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in dealing with his fel...
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 ...
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 Linco...
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 ...
May not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to serve our common country?
To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some harm.
May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?
Yes, and have the 'big stick', too, but do not brandish it.
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 Un...
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.