As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.