I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.