All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.