Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

I think I stand where that man stands.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.