I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.