No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.