You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.