This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.