If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.