Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.