Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Achievement has no color

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.