I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.