When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

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 people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.