Some day I shall be President.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.