- I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. »
- Whatever you are, be a good one. »
- We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. »
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. »
- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. »
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. »
- When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. »
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. »
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. »
- Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems »
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