If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.