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

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.