I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.