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

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.