Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

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

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.