Another gem of wit, courtesy of Abraham Lincoln.

>One day Ohio Senator [Ben Wade](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Benjamin_F_Wade_-_Brady-Handy.jpg) stormed over to the White House to demand the firing of [General Grant](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg) and exploded when [Lincoln](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg) resisted his demand. >”You are the father of every military blunder that has been made during this war,” he raged. “This government is on the road to hell, sir, by the reason of your obstinacy, and you are not a mile from there this minute!” >”Senator,” replied Lincoln gently,” that is just about the distance from here to the Capitol, is it not?” _______________________________ **Source:** Boller, Paul F. “Congress and the President.” *Congressional Anecdotes*. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. 279. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, ed., *An Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln* (New York, 1926), 416-17. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wade) [Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant) [Abraham Lincoln](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln)