My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."