I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.