All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

If you love something, set it free.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.