Life is hard but so very beautiful

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.