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

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.