Mankind Have Been Slow To Believe That

For Mere Vengeance I Would Do Nothing. This Nation Is Too Great To Look For Mere Revenge. But For Security Of The Future I Would Do Every Thing.

[science] Is The Literature Of God Written On The Stars-the Trees-the Rocks-and More Important Because [of] Its Marked Utilitarian Character.

For Honest Merit To Succeed Amid The Tricks And Intrigues Which Are Now So Lamentably Common, I Know Is Difficult; But The Honor Of Success Is Increased By The Obstacles Which Are To Be Surmounted. Let Me Triumph As A Man Or Not At All.

He Who Controls The Money Supply Of A Nation Controls The Nation.

We Hold Reunions, Not For The Dead, For There Is Nothing In All The Earth That You And I Can Do For The Dead. They Are Past Our Help And Past Our Praise. We Can Add To Them No Glory, We Can Give To Them No Immortality. They Do Not Need Us, But Forever And Forever More We Need Them.