Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

I never thought I would be impeached.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.