Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.