Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.