I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.