A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.