In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.