Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

It's bad. It's damned bad.