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.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Some day I shall be President.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.