If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.