No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.