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

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

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.