You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.

So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’

It is not best to swap horses when crossing streams.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.