Venice Would Be A Fine City If

I Propose To Fight It Out On This Line If It Takes All Summer.

I Leave Comparisons To History, Claiming Only That I Have Acted In Every Instance From A Conscientious Desire To Do What Was Right, Constitutional, Within The Law, And For The Very Best Interests Of The Whole People. Failures Have Been Errors Of Judgment, Not Of Intent.

God Gave Us Lincoln And Liberty, Let Us Fight For Both.

As Soon As Slavery Fired Upon The Flag It Was Felt, We All Felt, Even Those Who Did Not Object To Slaves, That Slavery Must Be Destroyed. We Felt That It Was A Stain To The Union That Men Should Be Bought And Sold Like Cattle.

Oh, I Am Heartily Tired Of Hearing About What Lee Is Going To Do. Some Of You Always Seem To Think He Is Suddenly Going To Turn A Double Somersault, And Land In Our Rear And On Both Of Our Flanks At The Same Time. Go Back To Your Command, And Try To Think What Are We Going To Do Ourselves, Instead Of What Lee Is Going To Do.