I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.