Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.