Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.