"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and …"

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward."

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."