"We here highly resolve that these dead..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.”

“The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.”

“The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.”

“Art is a jealous mistress.”

“In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.”

“Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.”

“Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.”

“Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.”

“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”