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?

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.