"Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.".

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom