It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
Abraham LincolnTowering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
Abraham LincolnWithout the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln