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.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.