"The nation is divided, half patriots and..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“We have the best government that money can buy.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.”

“Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.”

“The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.”

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”

“It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.”

“Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.”

“The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”