I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.