So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.