Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

My countrymen, we do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence our children will not be divided in…

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. For the good of the service itself, for the protection of those who…

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which aw…

There can be no country or dignity without unity of the people, and there can be no unity without agreement, and there can be no agreement without conciliation…

Awakener, come! Fiing wide the gate of an eternal year, The April of that glad new heavens and earth Which shall grow out of these, as spring-tide grows Slow o…

Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and mad…