In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Abraham LincolnI go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
Abraham LincolnThe human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Abraham LincolnMy friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln