Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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