If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I want in all cases to do right.