In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

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

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".