The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.