If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.