It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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