Labor is the true standard of value.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.