In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

A minister cannot preach the glories of heaven while ignoring social conditions in his own community that cause men an earthly hell. I stressed that the Negro minister had particular freedom and independence to provide strong, firm leadership, and I asked how the Negro would ever gain freedom without his minister's guidance, support and inspiration.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

General McClellan and myself are to be photographed ... if we can be still long enough. I feel General McClellan should have no problem.