I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.