I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.