I've got to find a man who will keep the right course." "Which is ?" Stanton asked.
"To fight it out to the very end.

To the last drop of blood and the last cent.

There can be no going back.

If I surrendered my post to any successor, though he were an archangel from heaven, who would weaken on that great purpose, I should deserve to be execrated as the betrayer of my country." Into Stanton's sour face there came a sudden gleam which made it almost beautiful.
"Mr.President," he said, "I have often differed from you.

I have used great freedom in criticism of your acts, and I take leave to think that I have been generally in the right.