"The Father of Waters again goes unvexed..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.”

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”

“Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.”

“The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.”

“Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.”

“The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.”

“No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.”

“Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.”

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”