I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war..

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion..

After the White House what is there to do but drink?.

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are s….

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world..

The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing….

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined..

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, wit….

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst..

There is nothing left to do but get drunk..

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength..

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence..

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the ble….

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity..

If your past is limited, your future is boundless..

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and….

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded..

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate..

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist witho….

I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, pros….

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospe….