Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.