I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

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

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me