A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.