Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

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

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.