How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.