Nobody Ever Left The Presidency With Less

These Semi-traitors [union Generals Who Were Not Hostile To Slavery] Must Be Watched. Let Us Be Careful Who Become Army Leaders In The Reorganized Army At The End Of This Rebellion. The Man Who Thinks That The Perpetuity Of Slavery Is Essential To The Existence Of The Union, Is Unfit To Be Trusted. The Deadliest Enemy The Union Has Is Slavery - In Fact, Its Only Enemy.

Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation.

I Would Strenuously Urge A Single Term Of Six Years.

I Am Loaded Down To The Guards With Educational, Benevolent, And Other Miscellaneous Public Work, I Must Not Attempt To Do More. I Cannot Without Neglecting Imperative Duties.

Virtue Is Defined To Be Mediocrity, Of Which Either Extreme Is Vice.