Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.