We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.