I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Your rights end where my nose begins.