I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

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. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.