No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.