I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought