I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.