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.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.