If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln.
Source: Letter to General George B. McClellan, whose lack of activity during the US Civil War irritated Lincoln.
-- Abraham Lincoln, (Feb 12 1809-1865), US president, lawyer; He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address, 1863.