If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

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?