To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

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.

Too many piglets not enough tits.